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Meta’s aggressive pursuit of artificial intelligence expertise has claimed another high-profile recruit. Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, has left the company to join Meta Platforms, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. A spokesperson for Thinking Machines Lab confirmed the departure to the Journal, saying, “Andrew has decided to pursue a different path for …

Meet Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck, the Self-Taught Engineer Going Head-to-Head With Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos  The Wall Street Journal Peter Beck discusses Neutron development as maiden flight nears  NASASpaceFlight.com – Rocket Lab expands Virginia’s role in commercial space launch, exploration  The Virginian-Pilot The self-taught engineer going head-to-head with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos  Mint Source link

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Wen-Hsing Huang, a 25-year-old software development engineer at Amazon from Taiwan, who is now based in Seattle. Business Insider has verified Huang’s employment history with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I always knew I wanted to study and work in the United States. When I was …

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tanush Sharanarthi, a 26-year-old software engineer based in the Bay Area. It has been edited for length and clarity. I work at IBM as a software engineer. I joined three years ago and have been applying for an H-1B visa ever since. The process was rough for me because I wasn’t …

Image credits: Getty Images Passion and overworking are two different concepts and it’s time we stop evaluating them proportionally. Case in point, a young Microsoft engineer who died at work. Cause of death? Overworking.Pratik Pandey, 35, of Menlo Park, California, badged into Microsoft’s Mountain View office at 7:50 pm on August 19. Around 2 am, he was found face-down in …

Back in the 1980s, there was a term in Japanese culture: “karoshi.” Essentially, it meant “death by overwork,” and referred to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events that were commonly connected to stress from work. There were those who thought karoshi had spread throughout the world, and tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) may have a case of karoshi on its own staff. The …

The race for top AI talent has spilled into the courts, as one top researcher is being accused of stealing trade secrets on his way out the door to a competitor.  In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, xAI accused former employee Xuechen Li of taking confidential information and trade secrets before resigning from the company to join rival …

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is suing a former engineer, Xuechen Li, for allegedly stealing trade secrets about its Grok chatbot and taking them to his new job at rival firm OpenAI. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in California federal court and claims Li took confidential information about advanced AI features that xAI says are better than those in …

Musk’s xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI  Reuters Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Claims It Is Being Shut Out  The New York Times Elon Musk accuses Apple and OpenAI of stifling AI competition in antitrust lawsuit  AP News Musk’s Boasts About Grok Undercut Claims in Suit Against Apple, OpenAI  Bloomberg.com xAI sues former engineer, alleging he stole trade …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of physics. This limitation has not stopped people from investigating the possibility, and the latest addition to the propellant-less club is an …